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HR 579 · in committee · significant

Recruiting Families Using Data Act of 2025

What this bill does

  • States must create family partnership plans to improve foster care stability and increase kinship placements.
  • Foster and adoptive families, child welfare agencies, and children in the foster care system are affected.
  • No new federal funding specified; requires data collection and reporting by the Children's Bureau annually.

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Community Threads

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  1. 01

    How should states balance creating new family partnership plans without additional federal funding while maintaining existing child welfare services?

  2. 02

    What types of data should the Children's Bureau collect to measure whether kinship placements actually improve foster care stability?

  3. 03

    Which foster care outcomes—placement duration, permanency rates, or child well-being—should states prioritize when designing their family partnership plans?

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Randy Feenstra

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Introduced 2025-03-05

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Legislative timeline

  1. 2025-03-05 · senate · IntroReferral

    Received in the Senate and Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

  2. 2025-03-04 · house · Floor

    Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.

  3. 2025-03-04 · house · Floor

    On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)

  4. 2025-03-04 · Floor

    Passed/agreed to in House: On motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill Agreed to by voice vote. (text: CR H962-963)

  5. 2025-03-04 · house · Floor

    DEBATE - The House proceeded with forty minutes of debate on H.R. 579.

  6. 2025-03-04 · house · Floor

    Considered under suspension of the rules. (consideration: CR H962-964)

  7. 2025-03-04 · house · Floor

    Mr. Smith (MO) moved to suspend the rules and pass the bill.

  8. 2025-01-21 · house · IntroReferral

    Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

  9. 2025-01-21 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

  10. 2025-01-21 · IntroReferral

    Introduced in House

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